The anti-Jewish hate
monger Mel Gibson has produced a movie entitled “The Passion of the Christ”.
The purpose of this movie is to revive the ancient canard labeling all Jews as
“Christ Killers” for the purpose of producing physical attacks on Jews in
this country and of course Europe. At the very least it is hoped by Gibson and
his Nazi friends that his move will lead to a revival of that visceral hatred of
the Jewish people which made the holocaust possible.

Anyone who knows anything
about Jewish history will not deny that it was precisely the “Christ killer”
accusation which was responsible for so much bloodshed during 2000 years of
Jewish life in Europe, ending with the mass murder of 6 million Jews by the true
believers in that myth. It makes no difference whether Jews or Romans were
responsible for the death of a Jew living 2000 years ago. It suffices that
that which people believe isreal is real in its consequences.
Therefore, those who see a movie depicting a gruesome execution blamed on their
Jewish neighbor will react with hatred and violence against that neighbor now.
Gibson knows that and so do his apologists.

Precisely because the
Christian message has been responsible for so much murder and Jewish suffering,
the Catholic church issued a proclamation on October 27, 1965 beginning with the
words: “Notra aetate, in qua genus humanum in dies arctius et necessitudines
inter varios populus augentur, Eccelisa attentius considerate quae sit sua
habitudo ad religions non-christianas," etc. or, "In our age when
humanity is coming closer together and the bonds between various peoples are
being strengthened, the Church examines with more attention her relations with
non-Christian religions", etc. This wording is followed with a detailed
discussion of the guilt of the Christian churches for the brutality shown Jews
over 2 millennia and is augmented by an effort to remove the so called “blood
libel” from the Jewish people. Numerous other Christian denominations followed
this example in the hope of bringing to an end the causeless hatred these
accusations have produced for so many centuries.

Included in this hate
propaganda has always been the insane accusation that Jews are bloodthirsty.
Jews are depicted in the Mel Gibson mythology as wanting to inflict the “death
penalty” on the innocent. This crazed hate philosophy is based on the berserk
interpretation of the Torah, which does indeed prescribe the death penalty for
36 offenses.

Many of these offenses are
meaningless to us. Furthermore, neither ancient Israel enforced, nor modern
Israel enforces, these laws. On the contrary. Israel has no death penalty, not
even for the homicide killers who have murdered 1,000 Jews in the last three
years and whose sole “cause” is the killing of Jews for the sake of killing.
Once more, Israel has no death penalty.

Unfortunately, it is in
our country that the majority of states continue to slaughter their own citizens
indiscriminately. The leader in that slaughter is Texas. There the killing never
stops. Day after day, the “Auschwitz” of Texas, Huntsville, is the scene of
assembly line murder resembling the Nazi death camps of World War II. Indeed,
the victims are not Jews. The victims are anybody at all. In Texas, as in the
other 38 states which employ the so-called “death penalty”, it makes no
difference to the prosecutors, judges, police, prison wardens and other killers
whether the victim of their blood thirst is guilty of a crime or not. They kill
to kill. For example: Since 1973, 111 people awaiting “execution” in various
murder centers around the country were released because they were proved to be
innocent of any crime. Evidently, many more of the 900 slaughtered around the
country in the 38 “death penalty” states were also innocent. Recently Judge
Mark A. Wolf, a Boston federal judge, wrote in the New York Times: “In the
past decade, substantial evidence has emerged to demonstrate that innocent
individuals are sentenced to death, and undoubtedly executed, much more often
than previously understood.”

In 2000, Governor George
Ryan of Illinois suspended the death “penalty” in that state because the
number of innocent people on death row exceeded the number not yet found
innocent. Ryan, previously a supporter of the so-called “death penalty”, did
not want to be guilty of judicial murder. Despite that evidence the prosecutors
in Illinois announced that they did not care one whit for the innocents they had
murdered and that they hoped to kill more in the future.

The fact is that anyone
who supports the so-called “death penalty” is guilty of murdering innocent
people. The difference between guilt and innocence cannot be discerned. It is
for that reason that 12 of our States, as well as the District of Columbia and
Puerto Rico, do not employ the so called death “penalty”. In fact, the word
“penalty” cannot apply since innocent people murdered by the state are not
being penalized. How can something be called a “penalty” when those
“penalized” have committed no offense?

Israel therefore has no
death penalty. Those who charge “the Jews” with being cruel are the very
same people who murdered six million innocent children, women and men in the
European death camps between 1933 and 1945 on the charge of being “Christ
killers”, a charge Mel Gibson and his supporters hope to revive in an effort
of instigating another holocaust. May they fail like Haman.